You can’t learn spoken Quebec slang quickly without having sound and audio files to hear the words and the accent! The book Canadian French for Better Travel (Ulysses Travel Guides) has all the words you need but it does not offer audio files. So, we created audio files for the book. We offer our sound files for free with no registration required.
Here’s how to get the book and the sound files :
How to get the book Canadian French for Better Travel
It costs 9 cents to 20 cents to print a color page on your printer (Real cost of printing). We added color bars to the book pages to make them expensive to print. In fact, it is less expensive and much faster for you to buy the printed book (or to buy the pdf version of the book) than it is to print out the book pages that you find on this blog. The book only costs $10 (ten!). More information about the book (and how to buy it) in our blog post : Book Review : Canadian French for Better Travel : Ulysses
How to get the Audio Files for the book Canadian French
We will posting the audio files on this blog from December 2010 to about March 2011. If you already have the book then you will probably want to just download all of the sound files right now.
If you are in a hurry, the fastest and easiest way to use the audio files (and learn Quebec French) is to buy the book and download all of the sound files at once. We put all the sound files for pages 23 to 134 of the book (the section on Quebec French) into one zip file which you can download. There is one sound file per page. The audio files are free (and no registration required or anything like that). In the book, some of the pages are blank (so, no sound file for those pages).
There are no DRM (digital rights management) restrictions on the audio files. You can listen to them with any software (like Windows Media Player, QuickTime, Amarok, etc) or mp3 player (iPod, etc).
Before you download all the sound files, please listen to some of them on this blog to see if they are suitable for your learning needs (or the learning needs of your students).
Important note : The gender of nouns is not shown in the book. We added the gender of nouns to the sound files. You will hear the gender of the Quebec slang words.
Here is how every sound file is labelled (ID3 tags) :
Album = book at ulyssesguides.com
Artist = Canadian French Book
Title = CDN_FR_pagenumber
Comment = Namke Learn Quebec French
Date= 2010
Genre = Other
Tracks are numbered from 1 to 106
Image = the book cover (the blue book at the top of this blog post)
Size of all files = 18 Mb. zipped (compressed). Right click and use ‘Save Link As…’ to download :
Right-click here to download CDN_FR_mp3.zip
How to Use This Quebecois French Learning List
Step 1) Print out this blog post list to use as a handy reference. As you study the material you can check off the pages that you have mastered.
Step 2) With your web browser (Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, etc), Bookmark the blog pages that you wish to review. The blog pages are all called ‘Canadian French : Ulysses – Page NUMBER with audio’.
Note : This is also a handy reference list if you are using the book to study Quebec French (even if you don’t use the sound files).
Quebec French Music with Lyrics and Quebec slang notes
Be sure to check out our other blog categories at the top of this blog page (for instance, Music with Lyrics) for more ideas and resources for learning French with the accent of Quebec!
List of Pages for Canadian French for Travelers (Ulysses Travel Guides) with audio voice files
Frequently used words and expressions
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 23 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 24 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 25 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 26 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 27 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 28 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 29 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 30 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 31 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 32 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 33 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 34 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 35 with audio
(no sound Page 36)
Numbers
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 37 with audio
(no sound Page 38)
Transportation
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 39 with audio
page 39 noun genders :
- un accotoir / un accotwêr
- un char
- un kat-par-kat
- un dix-huit-roues
- une route pavée
The Car
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 40 with audio
page 40 noun genders:
- un chemin de garnotte
- une bréïke
- une bréïke à bras
- un cap de roue
- une chaufferette
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 41 with audio
page 41 noun genders :
- du gâz (masculin = le gâz)
- la gâzeline
- la lumière
- le millage
- la minoune
- le miroir
- le parcomètre
- la remorqueuse
- la valise
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 42 with audio
page 42 noun genders :
- la zone de touage
- la zone de remorquage
- la vitre / la vitte
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 43 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 44 with audio
Getting there
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 45 with audio
page 45 noun genders :
- le bas de la ville
- le coin
- la lumière
- la pancarte
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 46 with audio
Practical Information – Money
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 47 with audio
page 47 noun genders :
- une piasse / un huard
- des bidou (un bidou)
Telecommunications
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 48 with audio
Electricity, The Weather
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 49 with audio
page 49 noun genders :
- le fil
- le jus
- la lumière
- la plogue
- une bordée de neige
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 50 with audio
page 50 noun genders :
- la poudrerie
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 51 with audio
page 51 noun genders :
- la tempête de neige
- le banc de neige
- la charrue
- la souffleuse
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 52 with audio
Outdoors
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 53 with audio
page 53 noun genders :
- le bécyk
- le bécyk à twâ roues
- la chaloupe
- la gougoune
- une marche
- le moineau de badminton
- la noirceur / la nwêrceur
- la traîne sauvage
Fauna
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 54 with audio
page 54 noun genders :
- un achigan
- la barbotte
- la bébitte à patates
- la bébitte é la bibitte
- le chevreuil
- le doré
- un écureux
- le joual / les jouaux
- le maringouin
- le maskinongé
- la mouche à chevreuil
- la mouche à cheval
- un orignal
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 55 with audio
page 55 noun genders :
- un ouananiche
- un ouâouâron
- le pic-bois
- le siffleux
- le suisse
(no sound Page 56)
Creature comforts, Lodging and the Home
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 57 with audio
page 57 noun genders :
- un air climatisé
- le bloc
- le bloc appartement
- le câdre
- le calorifère
- le canal
- la cave
- la chaise berçante
- le châssis
- le côloc, la côloc
- la coquerelle
- le coqueron
- la fournaise
- la galerie
- le garde-robe
- la pôle
- le portique
- le poste (TV station)
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 58 with audio
page 58 noun genders :
- le prélart
- le support
- la tévé
- la vidange, les vidanges
- un air climatisé
- la cabane
The Bedroom
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 59 with audio
page 59 noun genders :
- le garde-robe
- la galerie
- le bureau
- le cadran
- la couverte
- la couvarte
- le couvre-pieds
- la douillette
- la robe de chambre
The Bathroom
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 60 with audio
page 60 noun genders :
- le bain tourbillon
- le bain
- la balance
- le bol de toilette
- la chaîne
- la chambre de bain
- la champlure
- la débarbouillette
The Kitchen
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 61 with audio
- le canârd
- le chaudron
- la dépense
- le fourneau
- la laveuse à vaisselle
- le poêle
Cleaning up
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 62 with audio
page 62 noun genders :
- la balayeuse
- le boyau d’arrosage
- la chaudière
- le époussetoir
- la guénille
- la laveuse
- le minou, les minous
- la porte-poussière
- la sécheuse
- la vadrouille
Restaurants and the kitchen
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 63 with audio
page 63 noun genders :
- le casse-croûte
- la cuillère à table
- la cuillère à thé
- le déjeûner
- le dîner
- la facture
- le souper
Food and drink
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 64 with audio
page 64 noun genders :
- le beigne
- le beurre de pinottes
- le beurre d’arachides
- la beurrée
- la bière en fût
- la binne, les binnes
- le blé d’Inde (inde is a type in the book)
- le breuvage
- la broue
- le chien chaud
- le crémage
- la liqueur
- le melon d’eau
- le melon d’miel
- le motton
- un oeuf, les oeufs au miroir
- le pain doré
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 65 with audio
page 65 noun genders :
- la patate
- la pétaque
- les patates frites
- les patates pilées
- le piment
- le piment vert
- la poche de thé
- le préservatif
- le roteux
- (la rôtie) les rôties
- le soda à pâte
- le steak hâché
- le saffe
- le cochon, la cochonne
Quebecois cuisine
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 66 with audio
page 66 noun genders :
- la face
- la fraise
- le bleuet
- le beluet
- le belua
- un atacâ
- un atocâ
- la canneberge
- le cipaille
- le sipaille
- le cipâte
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 67 with audio
page 67 noun genders :
- une épluchette de blé d’Inde
- le sirop
- la fève
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 68 with audio
page 68 noun genders :
- la tire Sainte-Catherine
- la poutine
- le pâté chinois
- le smoked meat
- les cretons
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 69 with audio
page 69 noun genders :
- la tourtière
- la bûche
- la bûche de Noël
- le pouding-chômeur
- le pouding au chômeur
- la tarte au sucre
- la tarte à farlouche
Going out
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 70 with audio
page 70 noun genders :
- la boucane
- la fin de semaine
- la scinique
- la steppette
- la toune
- les vues
- le pârrté (party)
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 71 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 72 with audio – Get the Password
Shopping
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 73 with audio
page 73 noun genders :
- la buanderie
- le centre d’achat
- le dépanneur
- le nettoyeur
- la scrappe
- le spécial
- la vente
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 74 with audio
page 74 noun genders :
- la TPS
- la TVQ
- un aiguisoir
- un attache-feuilles
- la broche
- une efface
- le décapant
- le papier sablé
- la quincaillerie
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 75 with audio
page 75 noun genders :
- la sâbleuse
- le taraud
- le fixatif
- le spré nette
- le poli à ongles
- le carrosse
- la enregistreuse
- le kodak
- le pousse-pousse
- la ratine
- le système de son
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 76 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 77 with audio
page 77 noun genders :
- (le bâs) les bâs
- (la bobette) les bobettes
- la bourse
- le cass
- le casque
- le chandail
- (la claque) les claques
- (la chaloupe) les chaloupes
- le cô’te d’habit
- le costume de bain
- le foulard
- (la gougoune) les gougounes
- un habit
- la jaquette
- le kangourou
Sports
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 78 with audio
page 78 noun genders :
- la mitaine, les mitaines
- la robe de chambre
- la sacoche
- la tuque
- la veste
- le veston
- la baloune (seldom used)
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 79 with audio
page 79 noun genders :
- le hockey (written : le hockey. Not l’hockey like l’hôtel)
(no sound Page 80)
Getting intimate
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 81 with audio – Get the Password
page 81 noun genders (just the cute ones – the rest are in the blog post for page 81) :
- un bec
- la blonde
- le kick
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 82 with audio – Get the Password
page 82 noun genders :
- le tchomme (chum)
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 83 with audio – Get the Password
page 83 noun genders :
- (la fesse) les fesses
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 84 with audio – Get the Password
Human relations
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 85 with audio
page 85 noun genders :
- la bâtaille
- la binne
- la bette
- la chicane
- la menterie
- le niaisage
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 86 with audio
page 86 noun genders :
- le sparage
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 87 with audio
page 87 noun genders :
- (le moteur) les moteurs
- (le nerf) les nerfs
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 88 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 89 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 90 with audio
page 90 noun genders :
- le casse
- le casque
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 91 with audio
Working
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 92 with audio
page 92 noun genders :
- le barbier
- le briqueleur
- le comptable-agréé (CA)
- la dactylo
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 93 with audio
page 93 noun genders :
- le patenteux
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 94 with audio
page 94 noun genders :
- le sarrau
The Family
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 95 with audio
page 95 noun genders :
- le flo
- la fille
- le gârs
- la matante
- la môman
- le mononcle
- le pôpa
- la trâlée
Feelings
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 96 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 97 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 98 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 99 with audio
Behaviors and Attitudes
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 100 with audio
page 100 noun genders :
- le baveux
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 101 with audio
page 101 noun genders :
- la gougoune
- le grand djack
- le niaiseux, la niaiseuse
- le nono, la nounoune
- le tonton
- un épais, une épaisse
- un ostineux, une ostineuse
- le pissou
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 102 with audio
page 102 noun genders :
- le ratoureux, la ratoureuse
- le robineux, la robineuse
- le sans-dessein
- le slô’mô
- le smatte
- le snô’rô
- le Ti-djo connaissant
- le tocson
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 103 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 104 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 105 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 106 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 107 with audio
page 107 noun genders :
- le moineau
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 108 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 109 with audio
(no sound Page 110)
More Quebecois
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 111 with audio
page 111 noun genders :
- le gorgoton
- le tataouinage
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 112 with audio
page 112 noun genders :
- (la bécosse) les bécosses
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 113 with audio
page 113 noun genders :
- la farce, les farces
- une affaire
- la shoppe
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 114 with audio
page 114 noun genders :
- le papier
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 115 with audio
page 115 noun genders :
- le temps
- la terre
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 116 with audio
page 116 noun genders :
- un onguent
(no sound Page 117)
Cursing and Swearing
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 118 with audio – Get the Password
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 119 with audio – Get the Password
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 120 with audio – Get the Password
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 121 with audio – Get the Password
Unknown words (French words common in Europe but unknown in Quebec)
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 122 with audio
page 122 noun genders :
- la coquerelle
- la buanderie
- la poussette
- un élastique pour les cheveux
- la quincaillerie
- le poste de police
- le fixatif
- la contravention
- le pain doré
- le melon d’eau
- (le frais) les frais virés
- la citrouille
Those deceptive faux amis (same words with completely different meanings in Quebec and France)
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 123 with audio
page 123 noun genders :
- le condom
- le nettoyeur
- le bureau de poste
- le navet
- la moppe
- la guimauve
- un essuie-tout
- le plaster
- le diachylon
- (la taxe) les taxes incluses
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 124 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 125 with audio
page 125 noun genders :
- une allure
- le bâs
- le bloc
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 126 with audio
page 126 noun genders :
- le bord
- la neige
- la bwette
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 127 with audio
page 127 noun genders :
- la chaudière
- la claque
- le couvert
- la couvarte
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 128 with audio
page 128 noun genders :
- un autobus
- le bécyk
- le déjeuner
- le dîner
- le souper
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 129 with audio
page 129 noun genders :
- la guénille
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 130 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 131 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 132 with audio
page 132 noun genders :
- la margoulette
- le piton
- le pitonnage
- la planche
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 133 with audio
Canadian French : Ulysses – Page 134 with audio
page 134 noun genders :
- la suce
- la sucette
- le suçon
- la tétine
- la traite
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